Clinical and metabolic analysis of disorders in psoriatic patients

Introduction: Elucidation of the primary nature of biochemical shifts in psoriatic disease and prediction of interconnected subsequent changes in metabolic and inflammatory processes are important in foreseeing the dynamic development of pathological process and the choice of individual treatment. The aim of the research was to assess the disorders and correlations between main indicators of protein, fat, hydrocarbon and pigment metabolism and specifics of inflammatory processes in psoriatic patients against the clinical course of dermatosis.

Materials and methods: We analysed the results of clinical and laboratory examinations conducted in 62 psoriatic patients. All these patients have been analysed as per their age,sex, prevalence and the type of skin rash as well as per the clinical disease form. Biochemical examinations were conducted using appropriate sets of reagents. To establish the possible correlation between the indicators of biochemical blood analysis, we calculated the correlation coefficient, which determines the nature of correlation between the studied variables.

Results: The analysis of results received upon examining psoriatic patients indicated that microbial-viral associations, stress factors and genetic predisposition were the most frequent trigger factors of psoriatic disease, which corresponds to the data from literary sources. We detected that the duration of psoriaric disease up to 5 years was the most common, and relapses were manifested in its limited form against the background of the disease advanced stage; the prevalent psoriasis was more common at the hospital stage. Our study justifies that metabolic changes occurred in the overwhelming majority of examined patients of different age groups. At that, abnormalities of a number of indicators of protein, lipid, hydrocarbon and enzyme metabolism have been established. In addition, the expressiveness of corresponding changes correlated with the prevalence of skin psoriatic process and the duration of dermatosis course as well as the presence of pathology of a number of internal organs, in particular of gastrointestinal tract, hepatobiliary and cardiovascular systems, that suggest the presence of systemic disorders at psoriasis.

Conclusions: The identification of independent mechanisms existing between some changes in metabolic process parameters in psoriasis has a theoretical and practical significance in dermatology, which involves the use of medications to regulate the detected disorders, the possibility to restore correlations, and it will inevitably contribute to the achievement of clinical and preventive effect.